The First Malta International Forum on Learning 2009

The First Malta International Forum on Learning will take place at the Dolmen Resort Hotel, Qawra, Malta, between 25-27th June 2009. This conference is being organised by Let Me Learn (Malta) in partnership with the University of Malta. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity for established scholars, teachers, education administrators, school leaders, policy makers and other stakeholders to present and discuss latest research, applications, and innovations in the field of learning. It will also facilitate national and international networking in the area.

Proposals for presentations are welcomed (see submissions section on the conference website). Plenary and parallel sessions will be run in English.

Please forward any queries or comments to info@forumonlearning.org

Convenors: Prof. Carmel Borg and Mr. Colin Calleja

Day 2 - Morning Session

1 Carmel Cefai Learning in the context of socio-emotional behavioural difficulties (Primary Years)

2 FES The Writing Workshop as a site for effective differentiated learning (Primary Years and Early secondary years)

3 Bonnie Dawkins Honouring the learner throughout the school year (Primary Years and Early secondary years)

4 Sandro Spiteri Integrating management behavioural strategies in a Primary/Secondary differentiated learning school environment
(Primary and Secondary Years)

5 Carmen Muscat A multisensory approach to literacy (Primary Years)

Day 2 - Afternoon Session

1 Carmel Cefai Learning in the context of social-emotional behavioural difficulties (Secondary Years)

2 Gabriella Klein & Koffi M. Dossou Intercultural communication strategies (Primary and Secondary Years and Administrators)

3 Christine Johnston Practical Approaches to achieving learning outcomes (Primary and Secondary Years)

4 Charmaine Agius Ferrante Learning and Disabilities in the Primary classroom: Identification and support in the classroom situation (Primary Years)

5 Christine Firman Specific learning difficulties: a practical approach (Primary and Secondary Years)

Day 3 - Morning Session

1 Isabelle Gatt Workshop in improvising techniques in Primary education I (Primary Years)

2 Ruth Falzon Coping with Literary Difficulties in the Secondary School Classroom (Secondary Years)

3 Kathryn Riley Can School Leaders Make a Difference: Developing Trusting Relationships (Education Administrators)

4 Christine Johnston Practical approaches to achieving learning outcomes (Primary and Secondary Years)

5 Sue Lloyd Early acquisition of english literacy using phonics
(Primary Years)

Day 3 -Afternoon Session

1 Isabelle Gatt Workshop in improvising techniques in Primary education 2 (Pre-requisite: workshop 1)

2 FES Revision Strategies for Effective Differentiated Learning (Pre-requisite: writing workshop 1)

3 Bonnie Dawkins Honouring the learner throughout the school year (Primary years and Early secondary years)

4 Maria Borger Intercultural dialogue - An Experiential Approach (Secondary Years)

5 John Portelli Engaging "Students at Risk":Towards a Curriculum of Life (Primary and Secondary)

Mr. Colin Calleja lectures in the area of General Pedagogy with specialization in Differentiated teaching and learning, at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. He is the coordinator of the Programme in Teaching for Diversity and national coordinator of the Let Me Learn Programme. Mr. Calleja is involved in a number of EU projects dealing with Differentiated instruction and life-long learning. Mr. Calleja is currently involved with a non-governmental organization which has just been selected by an EU organisation to monitor racism in Malta. Mr. Calleja will be monitoring the Education component. Mr. Calleja is the author of Differentiating Instruction in the Primary Classroom (2005), he has also co-edited, with Prof. Carmel Borg, Understanding Children and Youth at Risk: Narratives of Hope (2006). Mr. Calleja is also a co-author of a Handbook for teacher trainers entitled Differentiated Teaching Module: Preparing trainee teachers to respond to pupil diversity – Teacher trainees Handbook (2007).

Prof. Carmel Borg is the former Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. Prof. Borg lectures in Curriculum Studies, Critical Pedagogy and Parental Involvement in Education. He has written, presented and published extensively around the foregoing issues. Prof. Borg consults locally and internationally, and is an external expert for the European Commission (DG Education). Prof. Borg is the founding editor of the Journal of Maltese Education Research and the current editor of the Malta Review of Educational Research.